For many, the 1970s evoke the Brady Bunch and the birth of disco. In this first, thematic popular history of the decade, David Frum argues that it was the 1970s, not the 1960s, that created modern America and altered the American personality forever. A society that had valued faith, self-reliance, self-sacrifice, and family loyalty evolved in little more than a decade into one characterized by superstition, self-interest, narcissism, and guilt. Frum examines this metamorphosis through the rise to cultural dominance of faddish psychology, astrology, drugs, religious cults, and consumer debt, and profiles such prominent players of the decade as Werner Erhard, Alex Comfort, and Jerry Brown. How We Got Here is lively and provocative reading. "Best approached with an open mind and a proactive imagination, How We Got Here is an original, beautifully written, big witty pudding of a book." -- Wall Street Journal "Frum's extraordinary new book is...an audacious act of revisionism, written in a voice and style so original it deserves to be called revolutionary.... How We Got Here is a macrohistory, an indelible portrait of America from above, whose author uses a zoom lens on occasion to offer a tight shot of a moment in time when a huge and infinitely variegated country changed suddenly, dramatically, and permanently in ways we are still struggling to understand." -- National Review David Frum is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor for the Weekly Standard . He is also the author of Dead Right .